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<td class="v">27:1</td>
<td>Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.</td>
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<td class="v">27:2</td>
<td>Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.</td>
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<td class="v">27:3</td>
<td>A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.</td>
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<td class="v">27:4</td>
<td>Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?</td>
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<td class="v">27:5</td>
<td>Open rebuke is better than secret love.</td>
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<td class="v">27:6</td>
<td>Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.</td>
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<td class="v">27:7</td>
<td>The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.</td>
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<td class="v">27:8</td>
<td>As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.</td>
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<td class="v">27:9</td>
<td>Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.</td>
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<td class="v">27:10</td>
<td>Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.</td>
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<td class="v">27:11</td>
<td>My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.</td>
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<td class="v">27:12</td>
<td>A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.</td>
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<td class="v">27:13</td>
<td>Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.</td>
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<td class="v">27:14</td>
<td>He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.</td>
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<td class="v">27:15</td>
<td>A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.</td>
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<td class="v">27:16</td>
<td>Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which bewrayeth itself.</td>
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<td class="v">27:17</td>
<td>Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.</td>
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<td class="v">27:18</td>
<td>Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.</td>
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<td class="v">27:19</td>
<td>As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.</td>
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<td class="v">27:20</td>
<td>Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.</td>
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<td class="v">27:21</td>
<td>As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise.</td>
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<td class="v">27:22</td>
<td>Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.</td>
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<td class="v">27:23</td>
<td>Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.</td>
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<td class="v">27:24</td>
<td>For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?</td>
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<td class="v">27:25</td>
<td>The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.</td>
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<td class="v">27:26</td>
<td>The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field.</td>
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<td class="v">27:27</td>
<td>And thou shalt have goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens.</td>
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